2023-10-07 14:01:51
Warning sirens sounded at dawn. At least 40 people have been killed since the start of the Hamas offensive on Saturday October 7, Israeli emergency services announced. Rockets were fired towards Israel and armed men infiltrated Israeli communities. The press release from Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, also reports “hundreds injured”. The Israeli Ministry of Health reported 779 injured people evacuated to Israeli hospitals. For its part, the Hamas Ministry of Health counts on X at least 198 dead in Gaza.
From the start of the day, hundreds of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel. The armed wing of Hamas immediately announced that it had launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation once morest Israel. At the same time, the Israeli army, cited by the Israeli daily Haaretzclaims that terrorists infiltrated from Gaza through “the sea, the air and the earth”. According to the same source, fighting on Israeli soil is underway and a local elected official was killed during exchanges of fire with attackers. Follow the evolution of the situation live.
The EU denounces the “taking of civilians hostage”. Hamas posted a video on social media showing three men presented as Israelis captured on Saturday morning. Another video shows other Israeli army soldiers in the hands of armed men, then one of them dead. The Israeli army has not, for the moment, communicated a report on the number of its soldiers injured, killed or kidnapped. The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, denounced the taking of civilians hostage and called for their release. “The news of civilians being held hostage at home or in Gaza is appalling. This goes once morest international law. The hostages must be released immediately”did he declare.
Israeli airstrikes in retaliation. Hamas “will pay an unprecedented price” for his “guerre”, declared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A little earlier, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also described the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement as “war once morest the State of Israel”. In retaliation, the Israeli army announced that several “dozens (of its) fighter jets (were) currently striking a number of targets” of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The end of the truce observed since May. This operation claimed by Hamas puts an end to a truce generally respected since the end of a five-day war in May. Israel then launched an offensive once morest Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, which cost the lives of 34 Palestinians and one Israeli woman.
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